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Getting Out the Vote in Louisiana

The 2002 midterm elections finally end Saturday as Louisiana voters go to the polls in a runoff election for the U.S. Senate. The incumbent, Democrat Mary Landrieu, failed to get a majority of the vote in November. Now she faces a strong challenge from Republican state elections commissioner Suzanne Terrell. Polls suggest a dead heat. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

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Mara Liasson is a national political correspondent for NPR. Her reports can be heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazine programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Liasson provides extensive coverage of politics and policy from Washington, DC — focusing on the White House and Congress — and also reports on political trends beyond the Beltway.
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